Source: The Journal Sentinel
http://www.jsonline.com/features/religion/37030949.html
Ali and Heyam Alzaibaq sit glued to the television in their son and daughter-in-law's Brookfield home.
They watch in horror as bombs rain down on their native Gaza, and they dial the phone, over and over, checking their daughters and grandchildren there.
"The children are very worried. Two of them are sick now, completely sick, from the noise, from the helicopters . . .  the bombings," said Ali Alzaibaq, 65, who has been unable to re-enter Gaza for two years because its borders have been closed.
"Two of my sisters escaped their homes," he said. "But my daughters, they have no place to go."
Milwaukee-area Palestinians, Muslims and Jews - many with ties to the region - watched as Israel intensified its weeklong assault on Gaza on Friday, raising the death toll to more than 400 as it bombed a mosque it said was used to store weapons and destroyed homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives.
The conflict has laid bare the political divisions between local Muslims and Palestinians and Jews, in a community where many have worked to nurture interfaith dialogue over the years.